This report is a detailed manual of the information specialist's duties at the Nuclear Safety Information Center. Information specialists scan the literature for documents to be reviewed, procure the documents (books, journal articles, reports, etc.), keep the document location records, and return the documents to the plant library or other lender. These basic duties (selection and acquisition, cataloging, and general record-keeping) represent some of the key functions in the dissemination of information, and the procedures are designed to achieve the goal of error-free, economical operation. (Author)